That's my name

Bella

Jasper looked at Alice and then at me and then at Alice then at me, this went on for a few minutes before he said "She's your sister?"

"Ugh!" I grimaced, burying my face in my hands, I felt Edward pull me into his side.

Rosie sighed, a hint of annoyance in her tone. "Jazz, when we said 'find a distraction' we didn't mean a human! Especially when said human is Alice!"

"I uh, um. I didn't know!" I heard Jasper exclaim, I practically heard Edward roll his eyes at his crappy defence. "Besides, I-um, I kinda like her." My head shot up. Jazz was staring wistfully at my baby sister and the four of us made disgusted noises at the back of our throats. "She's cute you know?"

When he turned back I was glaring at him, "Don't you dare Jasper. Alice, needs to stay out of this. Out of all of it okay? It needs to stay that way!" He frowned at me so I begged, "please Jasper! She's my baby sister!"

Jasper was frowning probably reading our emotions, mine primarily anger and protectiveness, I could sense Rosie's complete annoyance for her brother coming off her in waves, whilst Emmett and Edward were probably intensely bored. "Bella..." Jazz whispered, "If I don't go back she's going to wonder why, then she'll ask questions." I frowned at him and opened my mouth to retort but turned and walked away instead.

And I kept on walking until I reached the cover of the trees then I ran, and kept on running until I found the meadow Edward had brought me to when we'd first moved to Forks. The day after I watched Alice sit there and cry for hours over my grave. Edward was already there and the second the clearing opened I broke down into tearless sobs.
Falling in love with a vampire is both the best and worst thing to happen to me. The worst because I was human, every second I spent in his company was exceptionally dangerous-but I was an exceptionally stupid person. Plus Rosie had been my best friend for years and as I'd pointed out plenty of times when he was scared he'd bite me, he'd been a vampire a lot longer. To which he'd tend to have a mini hissy fit and insist that 'Rosalie also has a lot more self control than me.' Also because I lost Alice. The best because I gained Edward, and a whole new family. But Alice isn't me, she's smart and has a future as a human! I said goodbye to her so long ago now, this just cannot be happening.
I suddenly realized I was rocking and that Edward's arms were wrapped tightly around me, he hadn't said anything and he hadn't needed to. I knew he'd always be there no matter how stupid what I'd done had been-like jumping off a cliff to prove that he loved me or kissing Jacob McJerkballs to make him jealous. No matter how much of a bitch I'd been he was always there.

"Edward?" I asked weakly, he stopped rocking, "Tell me honestly..." I looked up, "What exactly was he thinking?"

Edward made a disgusted face and didn't look me in the eye, "I draw the line at that one." He answered, I dropped it because honestly I didn't really want to know.

"Fine." I grumbled and he stifled a laugh, I elbowed his ribs and within seconds I was pinned up against the nearest tree. "Edward..." I whispered, not daring to breathe even slightly.

"Bella..." He answered, his voice was hardly detectable. Like the swaying of the leaves on the trees. "Bella, Bella, Bella..." I kissed him, because he had this ridiculous thing where he could never tell whether he should or not. He blamed it on the whole shield thing, I called it his stupid early ninteen hundreds upbringing.

Of course when kissing a vampire and being a vampire you don't need air, it's brilliant. But makes talking hard.
Which means I have to put the walls down.
'Edward...' I thought, "Bella." He answered so I knew he'd heard me.

I smiled under his mouth, his hands moved, releasing my waist. I took the opportunity to jump. "Hey." I whispered when he joined me.

I climbed over to him, swinging on the branches. "Isabella."

I hovered above him, just a centimetre from his lips, "That's my name."

"Hahaha." He pushed himself up and I raised myself up simultaneously.

"I know, I'm hilarious." I grinned.

He narrowed his eyes at me. "You know you're also ridiculous."

I tilted my head, moving towards him, "But that is exactly why you love me."

"God it's traumatic."

Alice

I glanced around a couple of times, just to see if I could see him but every time I looked I saw about as much I had before hand. Nothing. It was like he'd disappeared into the shadows. So I carried on eating and then, against my will, my mind started wandering. I did this thing sometimes, I could tell. Sometimes see, what was going to happen before it happened. Bella had always called it forshadowing, our mum had just sighed and put out another plate for Grandma. After a while I learnt to ignore it, most people didn't like freaks. But if I wasn't thinking of much else it just happened. And when waiting for the only friend I currently had I saw things, the girls I'd named the It girls of Forks were laughing so much it hurt my head even though they were so far away, Jazz had said they were called Lauren and Jessica.
When the blonde, Lauren, turned to the blonde jock and started talking I saw flash of her and him, in her room I presumed I shut my eyes to try to dispel the image. Jessica jumped into my mind then, her and the blonde jock. Behind the bike shed. Geez, the people in this school get around. I turned from their table a looked around the room, catching glimpses of birthday parties and family dinners, English lessons and car journeys. I focussed on the cute couple Jasper had called Ben and Angela were making out in the corner, I shuddered and looked away. However not before getting a glimpse of a fancy white wedding and three kids, with her eyes and his hair.

Then I saw an image of Jasper walking towards me and turned to face him. He grinned lopsidedly, but it didn't reach his eyes. He looked worried, scared.

"Hey." He sighed, sitting down. I rested my head on my left hand, my elbow leaned towards him on the table.

I pursed my lips, "You okay?"

"Course I am." Jasper closed his eyes and glanced over my shoulder. "Alice..."

"That's my name..." I smiled.

"Your full name."

"I told you didn't I?" He shook his head slightly, "Alice Marie Brandon-Swan."

"Brandon-Swan..." He breathed. Jasper leant back, I frowned, there was something wrong. When I'd first seen him he looked depressed, his features-carefully sculpted, beautifully delicate-were upset, so sad. Like he had the weght of the world on his shoulders. Throughout the day he'd loosened up, his smiles lit his face up. Now he was concerned, and I was worried.

"Yeah." I nodded. "Brandon-Swan."

"Okay." Jasper buried his head in his hands. "Okay." Jasper looked up and looked me dead in the eyes. His eyes were golden, speckled with something else, brown. they were lighter than mine. Much lighter than the colour Bella and I had once shared. "You're worried." He suddenly said, I blinked.

"What?"

"Now you're confused."

"Right."

"And now you're freaked out." He smiled, it was genuine. "You think I'm a freak."

I looked down, my hands were in my lap now, fiddling with my own fingers, I examined my carefully painted red nails. "Look to your left." I whispered, "you see the blonde jock?" I asked, looking up. He nodded. "He's going to make out with both the blonde and her friend a different times in different places."
Jasper looked at, confusion painted clearly over his face.
"The girl in the frankly horrendous yellow cardigan behind me is planning a trip to Seattle in two weeks, early Christmas shopping. With... three of her friends." His mouth fell open slightly. "Oh, no, sorry. Two. The one in purple's going to tell her she can't come in... five, four, three, two, one." Jasper was watching over my shoulder. I heard the 'Oh really? Why?' and smiled.

"No judging then?" Jasper grinned, I grinned back. A moment too late, it smile was breathtaking. He was breathtaking.

"Freaks united." I joked, "I'm a member. We meet up every few months, we heard about you. I'm here to recruit you." He stared at my face for a few seconds and started laughing.

"You're definitely something Alice." He told me when he'd recovered.

"Oh I know."

"Can I ask you something?" He smiled, I nodded. "What are you doing tonight?" I shrugged, chewing on the apple in my hand. "Can I show you something?"

"Depends on what that something is." I answered.

"A surprise." He laughed, he'd relaxed, stopped looking over my shoulder... I wanted to I really wanted to.

"I hardly know you." I leaned forwards. "You could be a mass murderer."

"I could be." He leaned accross the table. We were only inches apart. "But you trust me, and I'm not." My eyes flicked to his lips and back to his eyes again. He noticed, and he'd done the same. I leaned back in my seat.

"I can't."

Jasper pouted. "Why? Too scared?" I feigned shock, he leaned back, his lazy posture mirroring mine.

"No. I mean I want to." I really want to. "But we only moved in this weekend, and I have tons of unpacking to do."

"And when will that be finished?"

"I dunno." I shrugged, "couple of weeks?"

"Can I help?" I narrowed my eyes. "Please?"

"Why do I get the feeling you're trying to escape something?" He shrugged. "Well no, you can't." Jasper pouted, "You could be a mass murderer."

"Yes." Jasper laughed, "I could be."